You may think that you are just one person and there is so much hurt, pain, strife in the world that you cannot possibly make a difference. However, the world is hurting because individuals are hurting. That if one person took the time to reach out to another, to show kindness, to show love that perhaps individuals would be hurting less and in return the world would be hurting less.
Fellow believers it's time to reach out to the wounded, to the hurting and to the lost. It’s time to show the love that we receive from Jesus to those who have not been introduced to that kind of compassion, care and tenderness. Don’t focus on taking on the whole world at once, but spend your time with individuals- reaching a soul at a time. You have the ability to encourage others, that although the world is broken, Jesus can repair anything and anyone.
If you have been waiting to reach out to someone because you are fearful of what they might say, can I just say that kindness is a universal friend. People want to know that someone is thinking of them. Today reach out to that co worker or family member who is hurting, reach out to that friend you have lost contact with, reach out to that stranger you pass by. You have the opportunity today to share good news with those people, to show them that someone does care about them, to show that they have a purpose and value and that Jesus loves them.
Today, don’t fixate on the brokenness of the world; instead focus on touching that one person whose salvation could be one nice word or one kind conversation away.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV)
You are fearfully and wonderfully made
(Psalm 139:14)
Melissa
(Psalm 139:14)
Melissa
